Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs/locks.c: prepare for BKL removal | Date | Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:09:51 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 21 September 2010 18:12:07 Sage Weil wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> wrote: > > > > > > I suspect the easiest thing is to leave Ceph out of this stage of your > > > series, I'll switch lock_kernel() to lock_flocks() once that exists > > > upstream. Unless there is a better way? > > > > Maybe someone could write a trivial implementation of lock_flocks() (i.e. > > one that does not make any changes to behaviour) and ask Linus to take it > > now in preparation for the next merge window (he has done that before). > > That way, more of this could be put into individual other trees and avoid > > more conflicts ... > > This sounds like the easiest solution to me. Something as simple as > > #define lock_flocks lock_kernel > #define unlock_flocks unlock_kernel > > in fs.h?
Sounds fine to me. I don't think it's necessary but if you prefer to do it, you can have my Ack.
Arnd
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